NEW SPEED BOAT
EARLY ATTACK ON RECORD IN BRITAIN HOPES OF DOING NINETY MILES •• AN HOUR (Recd This Day, 9.50 am.) LONDON, May 25. Secretly built from designs from Edward Spurr, an engineer, in collaboration with Lawrence of Arabia, a six-teen-foot speedboat, christened'the Empire Day, is expected to achieve a speed of 90 miles an hour, and is attacking the Italian world record speed of 70 miles an hour on Lake Windmere within three weeks.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1938, Page 8
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75NEW SPEED BOAT Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1938, Page 8
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